The 15th of March marks Digital Clean-up Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about digital pollution and an opportunity to audit all data, both personal and work-related. 

I joined the annual Boye & Co end-of-winter meeting to share and discuss issues and trends in digital leadership and content management with other professionals from digital industries. I shared our work experimenting with AI in Drupal and learned about opportunities and challenges in the digital sector.

As part of the Role of Profiles research project, the UX Service circulated a survey to staff across the University to gather data about how they use online profiles and what they think of them. 262 staff responded, providing valuable insights.

During a day spent working with Drupal AI specialists, we explored different ways to apply AI to enhance search and retrieval of content from University websites.  

As part of a day of AI experimentation with Drupal specialists, we learned how to use automated technology to evaluate content against the University’s guidance on house writing style.  

Advancements in Drupal AI and LLMs prompted us to explore ways to use AI to enhance and improve UX. Working with Drupal AI specialists, we spent a day considering how AI can impact user experiences of those publishing, searching and consuming University web content. 

Discovery research to learn about staff profile content published in EdWeb formed part of the initiation of a new six-month project aimed at improving the provision for publishing online profiles.

This month we hosted the second of our new Content Improvement Monthly meet-ups at Argyle House – it was great to see everyone who attended and really interesting to hear about different experiences of managing long content pages.                   For those who haven’t heard about Content Improvement […]

There is a gorgeous quote by Robert Cailliau, during his introduction to the first World Wide Web conference in Geneva, 1994. “I have seen many interesting applications of the web, and many interesting pieces of software… There is a garden of green plants out there, growing very fast! We should take care it develops into […]

As part of Information Services Group’s 2022 Summer Internship Programme, Website and Communications have several internship opportunities available for University of Edinburgh undergraduate students this summer.